Showing posts with label Spring AOP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring AOP. Show all posts
Following are task done by the Proxy Object when we calls the business logic on the proxy object.

1.  First proxy checks whether the Business logic( methods ) to be invoked is available with the target class object or proxy interface specified by the developer in the Spring Configuration while configuring the proxy for the target class. 

2. If it found either with the target class or the proxy interface, collects the data configured in the List of InterceptorName wile configuring the ProxyFactoryBean in the XML document.

Note : List of InterceptorName contains list of Advice class object. 

3. Proxy checks for the list of Advice class object in the List of InterceptorName, to invoke the methods defined in the Advice class by getting its Object form the list.  


Note: Normally 3 method are invoked sequentially i.e,
a) before()             --> First called defined in one of the Advice class.
b) afterReturning() --> Called after before() defined in another class.
c) afterThrowing    --> Called only when exception thrown by the . 


4. All the methods are called sequentially by their respective Target Objects , present in the Spring Container. 

Note : Respective methods will be called on the basis of Advice class implementing following Interfaces. 

a) MethodBeforeAdvice  ( has before() )
b) AfterReturningAdvice  ( has afterReturning() )
c) ThrowAdvice              ( has afterThrowing() )


5. If the Business Logic executes and returns control successfully then proxy checks for any Interceptor(Advice) which has to be applied after executing successfully. 

6. If not executed successfully that means exception will be thrown and then afterThrowing() will be executed. 


7. Proxy checks for the Advice class implementing ThrowAdvice interface to class the overridden afterThrowing() method. 

Important points 

1. before () method is present in the MethodBeforeAdvice interface , so need to override in our Advice class and always will be called before executing any business logic. 

2. afterReturning() method is present in the AfterReturningAdvice interface, so need to override in our Advice class and always will be executed if business logic executes successfully. 

3. afterThrowing() method is present in the ThrowAdvice interface, so need to override in our Advice class and always will be executed only if business logic fails to executes and throws exception.  
This is the very first technique to implement Spring AOP using Spring API. Later they introduces Annotation and XML schema concept which itself uses Spring API but with Annotation/ XML schema approach. 

Using ProxyFatoryBean we are approaching or implementing AOP in our service layers to our business operations to wrap business operations with the middle level services.
In this approach we are creating the proxies either of the target class or the interfaces. 


Creating the proxy of the interface based Services classes are called as Interface based Proxying where as, Creating the proxy of the object of the Services classes are called as Class based Proxying

So basically we are writing our services class in with ways :-
1. Class model
2. Interface model.

Class Model : In this model we are simply creating a service class having different business logic with its implementation. And we are creating proxy of this service class using ProxyFactoryService.

For ex:

Class AccountService{         // Business Service
     
    public void addAccount(){ // Business Logic
        .....
    }
    public void desposit(){   // Business Logic
        .....
    }
}


Interface Model : In this approach we are creating a service class which implements an interface having defines different business logic and the class implementing this interface have the implementation of the business logic defined in its Interface.

For ex:

Interface 
interface AccountService{   
     
    public void deposit();  //Business Logic
  
 }

Business Service class
Class AccountServiceImpl implements AccountService{ // Business Service

    public void desposit(){   //Business Logic
        .....
    }

Steps to be followed for implementing AOP using Spring API

1. Consider the business services written above.
2. Configure these Business services in the Spring Configuration document. For ex -

<bean id="asTarget" class="......AccountService" /> (class based)
<bean id="asTarget1" class="......AccountServiceImpl" /> (Interface based)

Note : From above both the bean configuration we have to use any of the approach either class model or interface model but recommendable is to use Interface model. 

3. Consider the required middle level services and write its services class. For ex-
I m considering three middle level service classes.
a) TxService.class ( Transaction Service class ) 
b) SecurityService.class (Security Service class )
c) LogService.class ( Logging Service class )

4. Configure the above bean in the Spring Configuration file. 

<bean id="tx" class="......TxService" /> 
<bean id="sc" class="......SecurityService" />
<bean id="lg" class="......logService" /> 

Note : The above middle level services are applied at the joinPoints of the Business operations. So for applying joinPoints we need to write some Advice class, as follows

5. Basically we have three joinPoints and grammatically all these 3 can be used with the predefined methods.
a) Method Before JoinPoint implemented using before(...) method.
b) Method Returning joinPoint can be implemented using afterReturning(...) method.
c) Method Throeing joinPoints can be implemented using afterThrowing(...) method. 

6. Write the required advcies as per the joinPoints. 

MBAdvice class 
Class MBAdvice implements methodBeforeAdvice{ //Advice class

    public void before(){  

      // Verify User logic
      // log the Information
      // Begin Transaction  
    }
}


MRAdvice class 

Class MRAdvice implements AfterReturningAdvice{ // Advice class

    public void before(){  

      // Transaction Commit
      // Log the Information
    }
}

MTAdvice class 
Class MTAdvice implements ThrowAdvice{ // Advice class

    public void before(){  

      // Rollback Transaction
      // Log the Information 
    }
}

7. Configure the above advcies class in the Spring Configuration file.
<bean id="mba" class="......MBAdvice" /> 
<bean id="mra" class="......MRAdvice" />
<bean id="mta" class="......MTAdvice" /> 

8. Configure the ProxyFactoryBean for creating the proxy of the business service class. 

<bean id="baseProxy" class="org.springframework.aop.framework.ProxyFactoryBean"abstract="true"> 
 <property name="InterceptorsNames">
   <list>
      <value> mba </value>
      <value> mra </value>
      <value> mta </value>
   </list>
 </property>  
</bean>
 

Note:
1. Using abstract="true " means instance will not be created for the ProxyFactoryBean class.
2. Configuring Advice class bean instance using the property tag and storing in the list as because all the information which is applied to the business operations are present in Advice classes instance. So need to configure with the Proxy class.

9. Configure Proxy object for our business Services.

Configuration of Class based proxy 
<bean id="asProxy" parent="baseProxy" > 
 <property name="targetClass" value="...........AccountService" />  
  <property name="target" ref="asTarget" />  
</bean>

Configuration of Interface based proxy 
<bean id="asProxy1" parent="baseProxy" > 
 <property name="proxyInterface" value="...........AccountServiceImpl" />  
  <property name="target" ref="asTarget1" />  
</bean>

Note :
1. In both the approaching have to follow any of these and recommendation is to use Interface based proxy.
2. In the immediate configuration parent="baseProxy" means the proxy created for the configured classes will be the sub-class of ProxyFactoryBean.

Important Point :
1. By the above configuration Container create the proxy for the target object of the Business service classes configured in the document.
2. That proxy object will be wrapped with the different middle level services which is done by the Spring Container while creating proxy with the help of the Advice class configured in the ProxyFactoryBean bean configuration in the list.   

There are some important terms in Spring AOP which we need to know about. All total there are 8 terms which are as follows :
1. Aspect
2. Advice
3. JoinPoint
4. PointCut
5. Advisor
6. Target
7. Proxy
8. Weaving

Aspect : It is one of the main concept in AOP which is programmatically represented as Middle Level Services(Sercurity, transaction, log etc) . Advices are applied to the Aspect.

For ex- Aspects are the middle level services like SecurityService, LogService, TransactionService etc are applied to the three JoinPoints of the Business Logic through Advices. 

Advice :  It is the required implementation of the Middle Level Services which tells about the method execution of different Aspects at the joinPoint. 
Advice is a Java class which contains the information about the execution of method of Middle level services at the different joinPoints. So basically it tells the container what to execute?  


JoinPoint : It is point or concept which tells where we want to apply Advice. It tells container when to execute?
Basically there are three joinPoints are provided by the Spring AOP i.e

1. Method Before 
2. Method Returning 
3. Method Throwing  

a) Method Before : It tell the container to execute the codes before the core logic to be execute. It is provided by the Spring in the form of a method called Before() present in the MethodBeforeAdvice interface.

b) Method Returning : It tells the container to execute the codes after successfully returning the control from the core logic. It is iimplemented using methodAfterReturning() method present in the methodAfterReturningAdvice interface.

c) Method Throwing : It tells the container to execute the codes when container throws execution while executing the core logic. It is implemented using methodAfterThrowing() method provided in the ThrowsAdvice interface. 

PointCut : It is the collection of JoinPoints. Previously JoinPoints are common for all core logic but now with the pointCut we have the option to tell Container to apply which JoinPoints to which core logics. 

Advisor : For telling the Container to apply these JoinPoints to the selected core logic we need joinPoint and Advice to configure in a Advisor. So Advisor is a collection of both JoinPoints and PointCuts. 

Target : It is the main object of our Business Service before applying the Advices or Advisors.It will directly call and execute the codes of core logic. 

Proxy : It is an object of our business service after applying Advices or Advisors. Calling the core logic with the Proxy calls the dynamic code generated by the Container which contains advices with the core logic. 

Weaving : It is the process of applying the Advice/Advisor to the target objects at given PointCuts to get the proxy objects. 




AOP is termed as Aspect Oriented Programming. Spring AOP is a concept which overcomes the limitations with the simple OOPs concepts. It is a new kind of programming technique which gives the facility to add the functionality dynamically. Here Spring Container is responsible to generating and executing the code dynamically, only we need to configure in the XML or through Annotation. Technically Middle Level Services termed as Aspect and practically we are Aspects to the main business logics at the joinPoints.

For ex- Let suppose if we have a business logic i.e deposit() and we are supposed to apply some middle level services to this business logic at the JoinPoints. 

Now the Question arises is where to apply Advices ?
Basically Advices are applied to three points , they are termed as JoinPoints. So there are Three joinPoints where we can apply Advice( Middle level services).

Comparison of Technical terms of AOP with the practical view

Aspect Middle Level Services
Advice Implementation of Middle Level Services
JoinPoints Where to Apply Advices?

Some of the Spring AOP Terminology we need to know
1. Aspect
2. Advice
3. JoinPoints
4. PointCut
5. Advisor
6. Target
7.  Proxy
8. Weaving.

Business Services -> It is the common services we come across in distributed applications.
Like CustomerServices , AccountServices etc.
It contains the set of Business Logic.

Business Services = set of Business Logics.

Business Logic -> It the main logic which is to be performed and it contains set of business operations.
For Example deposit(), withdraw(), getBalance() are the business logics under some business Services.
Advices are applied to the Business logic.

Business Logic = Set of business Operations

Some of the Advice/ Middle Level Services that we are attaching with the Aspects ( Business Logic ) are
Security Service , Transaction Service , log Service etc.

Spring provides three way to implement the Spring AOP :
1. Using Spring API based AOP ( 1.0 )
2. Using Spring Annotation based AOP ( 2.0 ) - > Recommended to use
3. Using XML schema based AOP ( 2.0 ) 

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